US Patent Issued to NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION on Oct. 21 for "Apple tree named 'BENITSURUGI'" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. PP37,032, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION (Tsukuba, Japan).

"Apple tree named 'BENITSURUGI'" was invented by Yutaka Sawamura (Morioka, Japan), Shigeki Moriya (Bunkyo-ku, Japan), Kazuyuki Abe (Funagata-machi, Japan), Kazuma Okada (Tsukuba, Japan), Taku Shimizu (Morioka, Japan), Hiroshi Iwanami (Morioka, Japan), Nobuhiro Kotoda (Saga, Japan), Takashi Haji (Tsukuba, Japan), Sae Takahashi (Utsunomiya, Japan), Yuki Moriya (Morioka, Japan), Hirohisa Nesumi (Tsukuba, Japan), Ayato Hori (Morioka, Japan) and Takashi Baba (Morioka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new variety of apple tree ...